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...they raced at in the prelims. “We had a sort of relaxed sense of power,” Morgan said. “We were in control of ourselves and we knew that Washington would be fast at the end so we wanted to extend the lead through the middle.” Unlike the second boat, the first varsity eight was unable to race its way past the defending national champions in the finals of the Copley Cup, as Harvard mustered a third-place finish behind the Huskies and Princeton...
...assign more blame to President Bush and Greenspan than you did to home buyers? Home buyers made a conscious decision to extend themselves beyond their means; they are the ones who need to be held most accountable. Mortgage lenders were certainly greedy, but it was also greed that motivated buyers. We always blame someone else for our stupid decisions. Only with true personal accountability will lessons be learned. Dave Meyer, Sauk Rapids, Minnesota...
After Vatican II, Ratzinger embarked on a more conservative path. The embrace of religious plurality, in his view, did not extend to an acceptance that all roads to salvation are equal or to a license for democracy within his church. During 24 years as the prefect of the CDF, Ratzinger earned the nickname "God's Rottweiler," savaging suspected heresies, mostly liberal ones, and ending the careers of several old Vatican II allies. Americans were not exempt...
...arranged sale of about-to-fail Bear Stearns in mid-March and its subsequent decision to extend credit to other investment banks over which it has no regulatory say have been major prods to discussion. Both House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson have since suggested that the Fed be given power to snoop around such institutions in search of market-endangering risks. Frank and presidential candidate Barack Obama have also talked of replacing the hodgepodge of federal and state regulatory agencies with a simpler and less loophole-ridden structure--and on March 31, Paulson...
...Sochi. But the formal bonhomie won't hide the escalating tension in the relationship between Washington and Moscow. President Bush on Tuesday strongly backed NATO membership bids by the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia, a move fiercely opposed by Moscow, which sees it as an effort to extend a geopolitical rival's presence to Russia's southern and southwestern frontiers. Although some European NATO members are reluctant to antagonize Russia by forging ahead with inducting Georgia and Ukraine, President Bush made clear that he backs the launch of the membership process for the two countries...